Django Unchained Review

5 Reasons Why Django Unchained Gets 5 Stars

Tarantino strikes a brilliant balance of crazy-ass action and scenes of bubbling, building tension.

Django UnchainedCert. 18

Quentin Tarantino’s latest big screen rampage takes his quintessential, over-the-top action and ruthless gun-slinging and embarks on a revenge quest across Slave-era Mississippi — with epic, cowboy-sized blood splatters and just as many laugh-out-loud lines.

With every passing minute of the movie’s three hour runtime, Jamie Foxx gets more and more awesome in the lead role as the titular freed slave. Besides, thanks to Tarantino’s snappy direction it doesn’t feel like there are any filler scenes, but instead a brilliant balance of crazy-ass action and scenes of bubbling, building tension. Seriously, for I must say it again: Jamie Foxx gets more and more awesome by the minute.Stand-out performances come courtesy of Christoph Waltz as the peculiar, enigmatic bounty hunter, and Samuel L. Jackson’s Uncle Tom character, the incredibly complicated, controversial — and terrifying — head of a plantation house.Add to that an typically great soundtrack, with hip-hop getting all up in the bits you wouldn’t expect it to, and you get one of the most badass mother flippin’ films of the year. Not a bad way to start 2013.